No Clowning Around! Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus Set to Come to an End

An American tradition will end this year, as the parent company of Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus announces they will shut down after a century and a half of it’s traveling show.

FOX’s Eben Brown reports from Miami:

P.T. Barnum opened his first circus in the 1870’s, with ringmaster J.A. Bailey. The Ringling Brothers started theirs shortly after and the two merged in 1891.